Superfluous completion for noglob

Superfluous completion for noglob

[Patrick]

Hi all,

I feel that using the 'noglob' precommand adds superfluous items to the 
completion list.
To reproduce, for example for command 'cd':
    zsh -f
    autoload compinit; compinit
    
    cd <Tab>
        [Only directories are shown, as I would expect]
        
    noglob cd <Tab>
        [Many regular files etc. are also offered.]

Pressing 'Ctrl-x h' after 'noglob cd' reveals:
    tags in context :completion::complete:cd::
        local-directories   (_cd)
        
    tags in context :completion::complete:noglob::
        use-compctl         (_default _python_argcomplete_global)
        globbed-files       (_files _default _python_argcomplete_global)

I would expect that plain 'cd' and 'noglob cd' offer the same completion items.

Is this a bug, or can I change this on my own?
Thanks, Patrick

Re: Superfluous completion for noglob

[Bart Schaefer]

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On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 12:55 PM Patrick <patrick1@posteo.de> wrote:

>
> Pressing 'Ctrl-x h' after 'noglob cd' reveals:
>     tags in context :completion::complete:cd::
>         local-directories   (_cd)
>
>     tags in context :completion::complete:noglob::
>         use-compctl         (_default _python_argcomplete_global)
>         globbed-files       (_files _default _python_argcomplete_global)
>
> I would expect that plain 'cd' and 'noglob cd' offer the same completion
> items.
>

They do, for me, zsh -f with default completions.

 _python_argcomplete_global is not part of the base zsh source, so it must
have been added to your completion functions somehow.  I would look for
something there that has unwittingly or misguidedly changed the completion
for "noglob".

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Re: Superfluous completion for noglob

[Patrick]

Am Montag, 3. Juni 2024, 22:48:23 MESZ schrieben Sie:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 12:55 PM Patrick <patrick1@posteo.de> wrote:
> > Pressing 'Ctrl-x h' after 'noglob cd' reveals:
> >     tags in context :completion::complete:cd::
> >         local-directories   (_cd)
> >     
> >     tags in context :completion::complete:noglob::
> >         use-compctl         (_default _python_argcomplete_global)
> >         globbed-files       (_files _default _python_argcomplete_global)
> > 
> > I would expect that plain 'cd' and 'noglob cd' offer the same completion
> > items.
> 
> They do, for me, zsh -f with default completions.
> 
>  _python_argcomplete_global is not part of the base zsh source, so it must
> have been added to your completion functions somehow.  I would look for
> something there that has unwittingly or misguidedly changed the completion
> for "noglob".

Thanks for the hint! That completion function was installed by a standard 
package from Arch Linux, python-argcomplete. De-installing the package fixed 
the problem.

BR, Patrick